FARID Berrezag (17) was dangerously close when the blue flash of a bomb blast ripped through the underground car park in east London.
"There was a big explosion when me and my Dad were in the car. If Dad hadn't had a seat belt on he would have gone through the window," he said, sitting in a wheelchair in an east London hospital with bandages covering his lacerated face.
was screaming `help me, help me'. Blood was gushing from my neck. My sister has got a broken leg. She's just 14."
Neil Parker, whose pregnant fiancee was injured in the blast, said: "People were very badly injured. If they were moving they were lucky."
"Some casualties had really bad facial injuries. There was blood all down them and their clothes were all wrecked.
"The streets were full of blood and there was debris from the buildings. I can remember it sounded like a cannon going off and hitting a concrete surface. If someone was right on top of it, they would have been lucky to live."